Itās been an emotional week, but I canāt decide if that’s because of the caffeine or the culture war⦠I do know Iāve been feeling a bit fraught; on a slightly paranoid edge that I canāt totally explain. Part of it is certainly down to an excess of caffeine. I normally limit myself to the […]
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I should probably not blog when Iām angry, but nothing rankles me more than a bully. Punch up not down is my guiding mantra, and Iām always happy to swing a fist to help the underdog. But onto this blogpost and the fact that the lockdown has eased⦠I write this ahead of whatever Johnson […]
Continue ReadingThoughts About Ending the Lockdown…
17.55. Had an early tea (dinner for those in the south) and Iām back at my desk with the window open, a slight breeze blowing, the birds singing. It would be so very calming except for the sound of the neighbourās grandkids splashing and screaming in their paddling pool⦠Iām not sure why Iām writing […]
Continue ReadingThe Amazing Generosity of Rishi Sunak
So I checked⦠I checked to see Iād be eligible for any of the help the government have so generously offered the self-employed for the past/ongoing three months of lockdown. And, I admit, at first, I was blinded by the chancellorās delivery. I believed Rishi Sunak when he stepped up those many weeks ago and […]
Continue ReadingSex and the Single Data Modeller
The news that Professor Neil Ferguson has been crunching something more than the numbers during lockdown means I need to stick a new post-it on my monitor to remind me that itās ānone of my bloody businessā. Itās the business of certain newspapers, though, who seem to take great delight in having found somebody displaying […]
Continue ReadingThere Are No Miracles
Once upon a time, when I was less grey but significantly more unhappy, I used to be a computer programmer. Well, I say āprogrammerā but I was probably one step away from a hacker; little more than a one-man-band who would write software to order, bypassing all the formal training Iād been taught at university […]
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